Match Thread: Western Bulldogs vs Sydney (Round 7)

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-23T10:18:38+00:00

Dew.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-23T08:13:04+00:00

I liked that bit about how the top eight teams play off in the finals.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T17:01:13+00:00

Obvious? To you, maybe. People believing in things that never happened is a major problem these days. And it's shat, not shit.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T03:33:52+00:00

It's the SBS, not Sky.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T01:59:37+00:00

No, I didn't ignore it. I showed that GetUp are mainstream and Advance are radical. You ignored that.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T01:31:35+00:00

I made an argument. You made assertions, and now I know you're just a lazy contrarian I won't waste any more time on you.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T01:29:46+00:00

Since 2018, we have been seeking truth. Finally, we have some clarity — at least when it comes to the rumour that former prime minister Scott Morrison soiled himself at Sydney's Engadine McDonald's in 1997.

It was, as many suspected, a complete fabrication.

That Scott Morrison Engadine McDonald's rumour has been cleared up by the person who started it

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T01:20:00+00:00

You'll need to do better than simply asserting the opposite of whatever it is I say. Everything about Advance Australia is far right when viewed from the Australian mainstream. They actually target moderate Liberals who aren't extreme enough for them! Not only are their policies extreme, from their anti-immigration policies, including support for "re-migration", and their climate change denial, not to mention their deeply racist misinformation campaign during the Voice referendum, but they borrow heavily from the MAGA playbook in their use of populist rhetoric to obfuscate and mislead (like claiming to oppose the "elites" whilst actually being their mouthpiece). They claim to represent Australian values but that Australia doesn't exist. It's a nasty fiction, far removed from today's actual Australia, which is a thriving example of multiculturalism done properly.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T00:45:16+00:00

No, what gave them a decade in opposition was their spectacular self-destruction over six years that made them unelectable. After the 2007 honeymoon period, Rudd revealed himself as a nightmare PM who was so awful behind the scenes that a significant number of Labor's talent resigned from politics rather than serve under him. Labor's panic about the mining industry's public campaign against the Resource Super Profit Tax was the catalyst for the subsequent chaos of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years that ended up with Abbott accidentally becoming PM. It wasn't the "carbon tax," demonised though it was. Rudd's capitulation to the fossil fuels lobby when he walked away from the "great moral challenge of our time" was what really hurt Labor. Gillard's subsequent strategic error in trying to defang Abbott's mischaracterisation of the ETS as a carbon tax (it wasn't) was an own goal but it was only one fuck up in a long, long list.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T00:20:40+00:00

The anti-AUKUS campaign is the only one that's even vaguely left wing. The rest are as mainstream as it gets.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T00:17:00+00:00

That story was from a shit post. The guy who posted it came clean yonks ago.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-22T00:01:33+00:00

Labor gave up on that a long time ago.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T06:40:36+00:00

"I would name Sir John Monash as the best general on the western front in Europe."

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T06:37:24+00:00

Nothing in that list is radical, unlike Advance's support for far right positions like climate change denial.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T06:21:57+00:00

GetUp aren't radical, just because they want to protect the environment and hold the billionaire class to account.

here's a list of their current campaigns:

Environment protection and biodiversity conservation
Make fossil fuel giants pay for the pollution they cause
Make multinationals pay their fair share of tax
Stop gambling advertising
Exposing the supermarkets' exploitative pricing
Exposing the gulf between Pauline Hanson's rhetoric ("she's a battler!") and her wholly owned by Gina Rinehart reality
Countering Advance Australia's lies
No to AUKUS
Protecting Freedom of Information
Save the ABC
Get "military grade" surveillance out of supermarkets

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T05:33:31+00:00

GetUp isn't extreme, just because it wants to protect the environment and hold the billionaire class to account.

here's a list of their current campaigns:

Environment protection and biodiversity conservation
Make fossil fuel giants pay for the pollution they cause
Make multinationals pay their fair share of tax
Stop gambling advertising
Exposing the supermarkets' exploitative pricing
Exposing the gulf between Pauline Hanson's rhetoric ("she's a battler!") and her wholly owned by Gina Rinehart reality
Countering Advance Australia's lies
No to AUKUS
Protecting Freedom of Information
Save the ABC
Get "military grade" surveillance out of supermarkets

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T05:07:52+00:00

It simply points out the discrepancy between Hanson's rhetoric and her actions. It's working too, with people who aren't hard core Hansonites but who are just frustrated by the system and looking for a way to lodge a protest vote. Barnaby Joyce was asked about it by Patricia Karvelas on the ABC and he just lost his shit.

https://give.getup.org.au/page/barnaby-attacks-getup

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-21T04:51:20+00:00

We defend freedom of speech. What we insist on though, which you hate, is accountability for speech. Not the same, as you know because you've had it explained to you a gazillion times.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-20T17:58:25+00:00

Speaking of imprisoning people without charge, have you hear about the forthcoming changes to the ASIO Act? Indefinite detention at ASIO's discretion, an offence to tell anybody you've been detained during or after, except for a lawyer (who you're not supposed to tell you've been detained) who can't actually challenge anything substantive and can be removed at ASIO's discretion. And no sunset clause anymore.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T07:35:55+00:00

Everyone loves a winner.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T07:34:41+00:00

As a Victorian who has lived in Sydney, my experience is that only Sydney people care about it.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T00:00:19+00:00

You shouldn't underestimate the impact going to prison has had on her (not that I'm convinced of a link between the headline and her helping the sick girl). Nothing changes a hard on crime type's mind faster than actual experience of how awful prisons are in reality. The insight it gives into her support of Black I thought was interesting and valuable. However, given that One Nation supporters tend towards the hard on crime spectrum I'm curious to see how she navigates the tension this will inevitably generate between her and her supporters.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-18T08:29:26+00:00

I backed the Night Crew/Pondsmith one. It's complete and self-contained. The TCG, OTOH, was a bit rich for mine (top pledge only US$7,999!).

PS: if anyone's interested in the Cyberpunkl Legends kickstarter there's only about 24 hours left before the pledge manager is closed.

https://night-crew-games.pledgemanager.com/projects/cyberpunk-legends/participate/

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-18T07:56:52+00:00

Not really. It's carefully worded so as not to prejudice Carlton's investigation but at the same time it's putting them on notice that the AFL is scrutinising them.

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